Does better DDR5 memory improve your gaming PC?

Over the past 25 years we have seen the transition from SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) to DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, and then to DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4 on a cadence of five year cycles. Currently we are using DDR5 on both AMD and Intel platforms at monumental speeds up to 8,000MT/second at 4,000MHz. That may sound impressive but the obvious question is how much attention we should pay to our RAM rather than, say, our CPU, motherboard, graphics card, SSD or cooling.

To address that question KitGuru has recently had conversations with Dan Ragland of Intel and Martijn Boonstra of AMD about the role that memory plays inside your PC. Once we had listened and learned we lined up a selection of DDR5 kits from Corsair and gave them a run with Intel Core i5-14600K and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X to find out exactly what is going on with the memory inside your PC.

00:00 Introduction
00:51 The Corsair Memory Kits
02:13 An Educational Crash course
03:39 Dan From Intel speaks to Leo
04:57 Martin from AMD speaks to Leo
06:48 Leo, 5 memory kits and two test systems
08:32 Manufacturers QVL lists - full story?
10:13 MHZ and Mega transfers ?
11:30 EXPO / XMP - or more?
13:22 Leos takes a closer look at the kits
16:26 Performance Test Results
18:17 Gaming Test Results
20:38 Leo’s Closing Thoughts

The Corsair DDR5 kits are:
£220 Vengeance RGB White 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-5600 CL36 XMP
£310 Dominator Titanium First Edition 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 EXPO
£195 product Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-7000 CL34 XMP
£130 Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6800 CL40 XMP
£105 Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-5200 CL38 XMP

The test platforms are:
 Intel Core i5-14600K on Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X on Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master

CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE Link H150i AIO
SSD: Corsair MP600 Core XT Gen. 4 M.2 NVMe
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming OC 16GB
Power supply: Corsair RM1000x Shift Gold
Power supply cables: Corsair Pro PSU Cable Kit Type 5

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